Spidertron control help

[cal12345]

Helloo

Im making a mod that allows you to link into a Spidertron remotely - controlling it with WASD, being able to craft, and interact with the world like an engineer - but the engineer stays in one place

1. The mod successfully puts the player into Spidertron drivers seat but doesn't give control over the weapons.

Ive tried many options to force set driver_is_gunner = true but never seem to get this to work.

Entering the Spidertron normally works fine.

2. Also have an issue when switching to the Spidertron it creates an inventory as if the player was opening the gui - when switching back to the player - the items in the inventory are lost.

At this point I can imagine this hasn't been done yet because it can't be done

[DaveMcW]

First you need to create a dummy gunner.

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/c
spidertron = game.player.selected
global.gunner = spidertron.surface.create_entity{
  name = "character",
  force = spidertron.force,
  position = spidertron.position
}
spidertron.set_passenger(global.gunner)
spidertron.driver_is_gunner = false

Then you give the gunner a target.

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/c 
enemy = game.player.selected
global.gunner.shooting_state = {state=defines.shooting.shooting_enemies, position=enemy.position}

When you are done, you should clean up the dummy gunner.

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/c
global.gunner.destroy()

[cal12345]

This still didn't allow the player to use the weapons but did set me on the right track

I created a dummy engineer to transfer the player into and teleported them into the driving seat. Allowing the player to control the weapons as well

Thank you!